Non-reusable bottle.



No. 788,549. PATENTED FEB. 28, 1905.

J. B. SMITH. I NON-REUSABLE BOTTLE.

APPLIGATION FILED JULY 22,1904.

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Patented. February 28, 1905.

JOHN BACON SMlTH, O11 AYLMER, CANADA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 783,549, dated February28, 1905.

Application filed July 22, 1904. Serial No. 217,666.

To (LH/ whom, it many concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN BACON SMITH, bookkeeper, of the village ofAyhner, in the county of Ottawa, Province of Quebec, (lan ada, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvementsin N on-Reusable Bottles, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in non-reusable bottles;and-the--Ob iects of my invention are to devise a bottle of cheap andsimple construction and such that whenonce opened and the contentsthereof emptied it will not be possible to use it for the originalpurpose again; and it consists, essentially, of a bottle having acircumferential weakeninggroove cut in the neck thereof, a suitablestopper of cork or other material adapted to be inserted below thegroove, an auxiliary tapered glass stopper provided with an upperflange, a circumferential recess near the bottom thereof, and a flangebelow the recess, an annulus of rubber or other suitable material,preferably rectangular in cross-section, adapted to [it in the saidrecess and lock the auxiliary stopper in the neck of the bottle byengaging the circumferential groove in the neck of the bottle, thevarious parts of the device being constructed as hereinafter moreparticularly described.

Figure 1 is a sectional view of the neck of the bottle inperspective,sho wing my improvements. Fig. 2 is a perspective view ofthe auxiliary glass stopper, part being broken away and in section tomore clearly show the constructionthereof.

in the drawings like letters of reference indicate corresponding partsin each figure.

(1/ is the body of the bottle, and L is the neck thereof. Acircimiferential groove is provided at c for purposes hereinali'terexplained. A similar groove may be out in the outside of the bottle,(shown at (1,) whereby the neck is made very thin at that point and sothe top portion 0 above the groove may be easily broken off. The bore ofthe neck above the groove is slightly larger than below in order topermit of the easy insertion of a cork below the groove.

f is a stopper of cork or other suitable ma- ,terial placed in the neckbelow the groove.

r is an auxiliary glass stopper located in the bottle above the groove.The cross-section of the stopper diminishes from the top to the bottom.A circumferential recess /1. is provided near the bottom of thisstopper, a flange extending below the recess. This flange is madeexactly to lit the bore of the bottle above the groove. On top of thestopper is provided another flange, j, which is adapted to engage thetop of the bottle when the stopper is inserted. This flange prevents theinsertion of a knife or other instrument to cut the washer, and sowithdraw the stopper without mutilating the bottle.

7': is a annulus made of rubber or other suitable material, preferablyrectangular in crosssection. Part of this annulus is adapted to iit inthe recess /1, the remaining portion extending outwardly and engaging acircumferential groove in the neck of the bottle after the stopper hasbeen inserted.

The manner of using the bottle is as follows: The liquid having beenpoured into the bot-' tle, the ordinary cork f is inserted. The auxiliary glass stopper is then inserted, the rubber annuius Z: havingpreviously been placed in the recess it. This auxiliary stopper isforced down until the annulus engages the circumferential groove c. Itwill then beimpossible to remove the stopper, since the flange i is ofexactly the same diameter as the part of the bottle above the groove. Itwill thus be seen that the only way of opening the bottle and obtainingthe contents thereof is to strike the portion of the bottle above thegroove a sharp blow, which will break that portion of the bottle off.The cork f may then be withdrawn and the contents used. As the bottle isdestroyed in opening, it cannot be used for the same purpose again.

it will thus be seen that l have devised a useful, cheap, and simplenon-reusable bottle. The uses to which such a bottle could be put arenumerous. Firms desiring to pro tect their own liquid manufacture may doso by using these bottles, whereby competitors will not be able to reusethe bottles contain ing their manufacture.

it is to be understood that i do not wish to limit myself to the exactdetails of construcsaid recess, and an annulus of rubber or the likeadapted to fit in the recess and lock the stopper in the neck of thebottle by engaging 5 the circumferential groove therein as and for thepurpose specified.

Signed at Ottawa, Ontario, this 18th day of July, 1904.

JOHN BACON SMITH.

\Vitnesses:

FLORENCE CUsHINe, RUSSEL S. SMART.

